His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

* 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.

* 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

Gdańsk is situated at the mouth of the Motława River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the nearby Vistula River, whose waterway system supplies 60 % of the area of Poland and connects Gdańsk to the national capital in Warsaw.

In modern practice, it is an air-cooled medium machine gun, firing rifle cartridges such as the 7. 62 × 51mm NATO, 7. 62 × 54mmR Warsaw pact, or 7. 92x57mm Mauser.

Finkelstein states that his consciousness of " the Nazi holocaust " is rooted in his parents ' experiences in the Warsaw ghetto ; with the exception of his parents themselves, " every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis ".

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

* 1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.

* 1656 – Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.

The 17th and 18th centuries include what is known as a golden age of libraries ; during this some of the more important libraries were founded in Europe, such as the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the British Museum Library in London, the Mazarine Library and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the National Central Library in Florence, the Prussian State Library in Berlin, the Załuski Library in Warsaw and the M. E.

* Luxembourg is represented in Lithuania through its embassy in Warsaw ( Poland ) and through an honorary consulate in Vilnius.

Zamenhof died in Warsaw on April 14, 1917, and is buried in the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in that city.

Missouri's highest recorded temperature is at Warsaw and Union on July 14, 1954 while the lowest recorded temperature is also at Warsaw on February 13, 1905.

* 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

* 1816 – Warsaw University is established.

* 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

Air travel is generally used for international travel, with many flights originating at Warsaw Chopin Airport.

The only exception is the Warsaw – Belarus connection which is scheduled to be built later.

The most important airport in Poland is Warsaw ' Frederic Chopin ' International Airport.

The Warsaw – Gdańsk – Gdynia line is being upgraded to allow speed up to 200 km / h, and the Warsaw – Łódź line is being upgraded to allow speed up to 160 km / h ( in order to bind together the Warsaw – Łódź agglomeration ).

I said I was living outside Warsaw now and had come back to fetch some of my things.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski on May 21, 2005 at the International Book Fair in Warsaw, Poland, promoting his Polish language book Moja Jerozolima, mój Izrael ( My Jerusalem, my Israel )

In 1913, Brusilov was posted to command the XII Corps in the Kiev Military District, remarking on his departure, " I do not doubt, that my departure will produce a sensation in the troops of Warsaw region ... Well!

It was my article that suggested that 8 cars in total were manufactured ; this was confirmed by employees at Arnolt's factory in Warsaw Indiana.

* Prot Lelewel: Pamietniki i Diariusz Domu Naszego ( Reminiscence and Diary of my Parent House ), Irena Lelewel-Friemannowa ( editor ), Wrocław / Warsaw / Kraków 1966

The city was heavily damaged ( 65 %) at the end of World War II and thereafter almost totally destroyed, when many of the buildings still standing were taken down by the communists for bricks to be used for rebuilding destroyed Gdańsk and Warsaw.

Some of the damaged historical city center was completely demolished and the bricks were used to rebuild Warsaw and Gdańsk.

The most populous capital city of Warsaw replaced Danzig ( Gdańsk ) as the leading trade center, and the role of the more prosperous urban strata was increasing.

* 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.

# Some city dwellers, especially the less affluent population, had their own distinctive dialects — for example the Warsaw dialect, still spoken by some of the population of Praga on the eastern bank of the Vistula.

The city became a part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, and was the seat of Poznań Department-a unit of administrative division and local government.

Poznań is regarded as the second most prosperous city in Poland after Warsaw.

The main east-west A2 motorway runs south of the city connecting it with Berlin in the west and Łódż and Warsaw in the east ; other main roads run in the direction of Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, Wągrowiec, Oborniki, Katowice, Wrocław, Buk and Berlin.

* 1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.

In 1807 Napoleon conquered part of the territory and made the city part of the Duchy of Warsaw.

Shortly after its defeat in the battle of Warsaw, the retreating Red Army, in order to delay the Polish advance, ceded the city to Lithuania after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty on 12 July 1920.

Warsaw ( ( also ); see also other names ) is the capital and largest city of Poland.

Its population is estimated at 1, 708, 491 residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2, 666, 278 residents, making Warsaw the 9th most populous city proper in the European Union.

At the end of 1944 an additional 30, 000-60, 000 Poles were moved into the city after Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising In February 1945 the Soviet Red Army approached the city.

The A8 motorway ( Wrocław ring road ) around the west and north of the city connects the A4 motorway with the S8 express road that leads to Oleśnica, Łódź, Warsaw and Białystok.

In 1865 the first railroad line opened ( to Koluszki, branch line of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway ), and soon the city had rail links with Warsaw and Białystok.

In October 1958, Foucault arrived in the Polish city of Warsaw, where he was put in charge of the University of Warsaw's Centre Français.

Various positions were available in West Germany, and so Foucault decided to relocate to the city of Hamburg, where he continued to teach the same courses that he had given in Uppsala and Warsaw.

In 1809, Austria was successfully defeated by Polish – Saxon troops after it attempted to take possession of the Duchy and for its part had to cede to the Duchy of Warsaw Polish regions absorbed up to 1795, among them the old Polish royal city of Kraków.

During World War II, people who decided to stay and hide in the ruins of the German-occupied city of Warsaw for a period of three winter months, from October to January 1945, when they were rescued by the Red Army, were later called Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw.